[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 125890] Changed - Plugin Writers Guide needs rewrite

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Changed by ds at schleef.org.

--- shadow/125890	Thu Jan 29 05:06:33 2004
+++ shadow/125890.tmp.28996	Thu Jan 29 14:31:12 2004
@@ -41,6 +41,19 @@
 ------- Additional Comments From rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net  2004-01-28 16:56 -------
 Oh, and dave told me the bufferpool story is outdated, too.
 
 ------- Additional Comments From rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net  2004-01-29 05:06 -------
 And section-preface-reading.html should point to Matthieu's GObject
 doc on http://www.le-hacker.org/papers/gobject/index.html
+
+------- Additional Comments From ds at schleef.org  2004-01-29 14:31 -------
+bufferpool stuff is rewritten.
+
+IMO, a filter is restricted to elements that always have the same caps
+on both source and sink pads.  Thus, demuxers, decoders, and
+colorspace are not filters, which is not clear from the current
+description.  I prefer to use the term 'converters' for
+format-changing elements (like colorspace, audioscale, videoscale, or
+audioconvert).
+
+Erik used to use the term 'filter' for everything that wasn't a source
+or a sink, which I think is incorrect.